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The handling of nonresponse error
Author(s) -
Dooley Larry M.,
Lindner James R.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
human resource development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.756
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1532-1096
pISSN - 1044-8004
DOI - 10.1002/hrdq.1052
Subject(s) - psychology , statistics , norm (philosophy) , computer science , econometrics , mathematics , political science , law
This study was designed to describe and explore how nonresponse in Human Resource DevelopmentQuarterly (HRDQ) historically has been handled. All feature and article manuscripts (n= 158) published in HRDQ during the years 1990 through 1999 were analyzed usingcontent analysis techniques. Study findings show that not mentioning nonresponse error as a threat to externalvalidity of a study, not attempting to control for nonresponse error, or not providing a reference to theliterature were unfortunately the norm and not the exception. Four recommendations for handling nonresponseerror are comparison of early to late respondents, using “days to respond” as a regressionvariable, comparing respondents to nonrespondents, and comparing respondents on characteristics known apriori.